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The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century
\"This important work... synthesizes the evolution of warfare from 1775 to the present.\" -Military Review
A thorough revision of a highly successful text, this new edition provides a comprehensive picture of the evolution of modern warfare.
From reviews of the first edition:
\"There is nothing else in print that tells so much so concisely about how war has been conducted since the days of Gen. George Washington.\"-Russell F. Weigley
\"A superior synthesis. Well written, nicely organized, remarkably comprehensive, and laced with facts.\"-Military Affairs
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America's War in Vietnam
\"This book has been long needed: a concise, complete and dispassionate survey of the Vietnam War... Best of all, the no-nonsense approach answers questions as soon as they arise in the reader's mind.\" -Kliatt
\"If there is such a thing as an objective account [of the Vietnam War], this is it... If you want to read one book about Vietnam, read this one.\" -New York Review of Books
A short, narrative history of the origins, course, and outcome of America's military involvement in Vietnam by an experienced guide to the causes and conduct of war, Larry H. Addington. He begins with a history of Vietnam before and after French occupation, the Cold War origins of American involvement, the domestic impact of American policies on public support, and the reasons for the ultimate failure of U.S. policy.
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America's War in Vietnam
This book has been long needed: a concise, complete and dispassionate survey of the Vietnam War... Best of all, the no-nonsense approach answers questions as soon as they arise in the reader's mind. —Kliatt If there is such a thing as an objective account [of the Vietnam War], this is it... If you want to read one book about Vietnam, read this one. —New York Review of Books A short, narrative history of the origins, course, and outcome of America's military involvement in Vietnam by an experienced guide to the causes and conduct of war, Larry H. Addington. He begins with a history of Vietnam before and after French occupation, the Cold War origins of American involvement, the domestic impact of American policies on public support, and the reasons for the ultimate failure of U.S. policy.
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Nixon’s War, II
At the beginning of 1971, critics of the Nixon administration clamored for a demonstration that Vietnamization was actually working and that as a result the ARVN was a match for the VPLA/PAVN forces without direct American intervention. Nixon urged President Thieu to order the ARVN to undertake an independent operation as a demonstration of its newfound self-sufficiency. The two presidents agreed that the demonstration would consist of a thrust by 17,000 ARVN troops into Laos in order to sever the Ho Chi Minh Trail at the town of Tchepone, twenty-five miles from the ROV-Lao frontier. The ROV’s joint general staff
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Eisenhower and the Road to America’s War in Vietnam, 1954–1960
The obsession of the Eisenhower administration with containing the spread of communism in Southeast Asia manifested itself even before the signing of the Geneva Accords. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles lobbied vigorously for a collective security pact in the region, and when that effort met with favorable responses from other countries, he began to envision an alliance that would form a military-political force in Southeast Asia that the communists would not dare to challenge. The American diplomatic efforts culminated in a conference in Manila, the Philippines, early in September 1954 for the signing of a treaty that founded the
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Johnson’s War, I
Though a pall hung over General Duong Van Minh for his responsibility in the murders of President Diem and his brother Nhu, he won a large measure of support from President Johnson by canceling martial law in the ROV, releasing the Buddhist monks and nuns who had been incarcerated by the Diem regime (Minh himself had a Buddhist background), and promising equal treatment of Buddhist and Catholic Vietnamese in future. But Johnson’s satisfaction with Minh was short-lived.
To Johnson’s dismay, Minh planned to dismantle the discredited Strategic Hamlet program and to seek some kind of understanding with the communist-led National
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The Geography of Vietnam and Its History to World War Two
Vietnam has been likened to two rice bowls at the opposite ends of a carrying pole. The rice bowls represent the Song Coi (Red River) delta in the north and the Mekong River delta in the south, and the carrying pole represents the long, narrow territory in between. The country uncoils from its frontier with China, at approximately the 26th parallel, in an elongated “S” that stretches southward for more than 1,200 miles to a point below the 9th parallel, where the Ca Mau peninsula separates the South China Sea from the Gulf of Thailand. In all, Vietnam’s borders encompass
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The Career of Ho Chi Minh to 1939
The man who would become famous under the name Ho Chi Minh (“He who enlightens”), and who would also become America’s chief antagonist in America’s war in Vietnam, was born in Annam on 19 May 1890 under the name of Nguyen That Thanh. Little is known about his mother except that she was a concubine. Nguyen Sinh Sac, his father, was of peasant origins, but through assiduous study of Confucian philosophy, he had risen to the lower ranks of the mandarins and to a place at the court at Hue. The emperor’s subservience to the French led to his disillusionment,
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Kennedy’s War
The presidential campaign of 1960 was fiercely contested between Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon. Nixon had served two terms as Eisenhower’s vice president, and his anti-communist credentials were beyond question. From the time he had entered Congress shortly after World War II, he had largely made a career of alleging both an internal and an external communist menace. As vice president under Eisenhower, Nixon had visited Vietnam, and he strongly supported the policy of containment of communism there. His performance over the years had brought him national notoriety and made him popular in conservative circles.
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